CV friendly term for 'petrol-head'...

[MsSpikeyhead]

Have important job application coming up and I need to update my CV so I'm looking for a CV friendly term for 'petrol-head' and would like to enlist the help of the pistonheads collective conciousness.

I've thought about 'motorsport' but it just doesn't fit the bill since I don't race.

Automotive engineering again doesn't work... sounds overly middle-aged and too oilcovered overallish

I need a snappy description which makes the whole thing sound fun and exciting but which doesn't bring to mind a car obsessed teenaged boyracer with an overly body-kitted hatchback.

[BrabusMog]

Car enthusiast?

[schmalex]

BrabusMog said:

Car enthusiast?

Sounds like a geek. Or rapist.

[mybrainhurts]

Car hooligan...

[RemainAllHoof]

BrabusMog said:

Car enthusiast?

This is the best description unless you can specify what exactly you're into with regard to cars if you don't participate in motorsport.

[zac510]

If the job is in no way related to automotive matters then do not mention it.

[AlfaPapa]

Does it really need to go on? I leave the personal 'stuff' for interview...

[RemainAllHoof]

mybrainhurts said:

Car hooligan...

Indeed. If the interviewer says, "So your CV says you're a car xyz... tell me more?" and you reply by saying how you enjoy tuning the car for more power and going for drives, then he'll translate that as "max power hooligan who likes to rag his car around city centres".

So what exactly is your interest in cars? Attending meets is no better. He will think "Halfords car park".

[anonymous-user]

schmalex said:

BrabusMog said:

Car enthusiast?

rapist.

Please, please can you explain yur thought process?

To the OP, instead of coining it in one phrase, why can't you give a brief explanation as to your interest/involvment with motoring and your level of enthusiasm in it?

[MsSpikeyhead]

BrabusMog said:

Car enthusiast?

I thought about that as well... cars do enthuse me... but would like to sound a little more dynamic...

The job I will be applying for is occasionally adrenaline fulled (and also will at some point involve administering adrenaline!) so would like to evoke that I would be capable of competantly driving something quick around a track rather than than being sat at home watching F1 and TopGear etc etc...

[Eggman]

Keen driver.

[mybrainhurts]

Automobilist and jolly good sport...

[CommanderJameson]

BarnatosGhost said:

Women disappear in a flash with just one application of new improved, 'Car Enthusiast'.

[MsSpikeyhead]

mybrainhurts said:

Automobilist and jolly good sport...

Yes... something like that but less whimsical!

[RemainAllHoof]

Msspikeyhead said:

I thought about that as well... cars do enthuse me... but would like to sound a little more dynamic...

The job I will be applying for is occasionally adrenaline fulled (and also will at some point involve administering adrenaline!) so would like to evoke that I would be capable of competantly driving something quick around a track rather than than being sat at home watching F1 and TopGear etc etc...

If you've done track days, put motorsport enthusiast and mention that you've participated in track days.

[Driller]

BrabusMog said:

Car enthusiast?

Or slightly modified to motoring enthusiast?

[CommanderJameson]

RemainAllHoof said:

Msspikeyhead said:

I thought about that as well... cars do enthuse me... but would like to sound a little more dynamic...

The job I will be applying for is occasionally adrenaline fulled (and also will at some point involve administering adrenaline!) so would like to evoke that I would be capable of competantly driving something quick around a track rather than than being sat at home watching F1 and TopGear etc etc...

If you've done track days, put motorsport enthusiast and mention that you've participated in track days.

And pray that the recipient doesn't regard motorsport as being the organised rape of Gaia.

[MsSpikeyhead]

@CommanderJameson

Yes it's this kind of mental immagery I want to avoid creating in the interview pannel members minds... however if they read the demographics section properly they should notice than I am youngish and also female

[k-ink]

You can call it what you like but most people will just hear "Sad Muppet"

[CommanderJameson]

Msspikeyhead said:

@CommanderJameson

Yes it's this kind of mental immagery I want to avoid creating in the interview pannel members minds... however if they read the demographics section properly they should notice than I am youngish and also female

They may come to the conclusion that "female" is less a statement of fact and more a long-term ambition.

I wouldn't put any of my external interests on a CV, tbh.